Author: Michelle Tackabery

When thinking of how a Platform-as-a-Service deployment could improve the way your company develops applications, it could be worthwhile to take a wide view of the situation. There are many different benefits, and some of them can be highly surprising. Not only are departments with access to PaaS...

The age of software offerings that rely on a certain type of hardware and an on-site deployment is drawing to a close. The replacement, at least as far as everyday business tasks are concerned, has come in the form of Web applications.
Employees are both creating and accessing their apps through...

Crucial operational processes can become overly complex, spreading confusion widely. Professionals should avoid this whenever possible, but it is easy to see how it can happen. For instance, now that businesses have discovered the value of enterprise Web applications for a wide variety of...

The variety of applications and data storage utilities employed in today's enterprise setting is a natural consequence of IT progress. More information means additional context for decision-making purposes. However, this abundance of data sources poses one major challenge: Aggregating information...

Few things can sink an application development project quite as quickly as a lack of focus. If professionals find that their tools are not up the task or simply cut corners, they may end up creating solutions that fail to live up to expectations. It is therefore important that business leaders ensure...

When confronted with the advantages of cloud computing, it is easy to join those predicting that this method will soon become the default way to develop and use business applications. Web apps that are run on a Software-as-a-Service model are accessible regardless of the end-user's location and...

According to an Accenture forecast, the cloud computing market in the retail industry is expected to grow by more than three times between 2011 and 2015, from $4.2 billion to $15.1 billion. Retailers can improve almost every aspect of their businesses ... According to MintJutras, SaaS -based...

Today's work environments are not always as clear and simple as the classic office model, wherein all employees report to the same space at the same time. There are several ways to tie together workers who are scattered geographically, including through the use of enterprise applications that all...

When office interactions are fractured or siloed, it can be hard to think of the solution. It may be easy to conclude that the different departments of a firm are simply too dissimilar, and that it will always take a long time for employees to communicate and collaborate. Before giving up, though,...

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